My only question is whether it will come in the remainder of my life (~30 years, at best), or later, not "if".
And I do think that launch trails from Russia and China will converge on North America, although those two parties may turn on each other at some point.
Both are milking US for all the high-tech data they accumulate, then the unthinkable will be directed at US. Afterward, as with Hitler and Stalin, they battle it out with each other for global supremacy.